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The Country Living Fair was this weekend. It was entertaining, exhausting and fantastic all at once. I have a little story to share and then I’m off to the sweatshop. It starts off crappy then has a happy finish, so keep reading!

(This is just a pic of the snow globe Olivia gave me at Country Living. I’m excited about it and thought you’d want to see it too!)

I was feeling sort of angsty after an interesting encounter with a person attending the fair. She openly was drawing our goods so that she could then make them and sell them at her church bazaar. She told me this.

People photograph our stuff all the time so they can make it. That really doesn’t bother me. If a person is a maker (I think it’s a personality type) they don’t WANT to buy stuff. They want to make it. I think that’s awesome! It’s the person that wants to pass it off as their own idea that chaps my ass. The woman I mentioned also was surprised to learn it was my idea. That was the part that really got me. She assumed it was something I just saw on Pinterest or whatever and was copying it and making money from it. She assumed that THAT is the norm.

While I was sitting at the booth and mulling this over, trying to figure out why I was so annoyed, an awesome person came into our booth. (I was sharing a booth with Wholly Craft. I know! A celebrity!) She was looking around with her husband and both just seemed so damn happy and I thought, “Dalrymple, (that’s what I say when I’m talking to myself) you gotta quit thinking about that turd from earlier because here are some people that just want to be nice so you should let them.”

When she came up to pay (She bought some cool drawer pulls), she said, “Are you the AmyD?” I was surprised and didn’t really know how to respond, so stupidly said, “I suppose!” She then explained that she has two of our aprons and loved our stuff. I jumped up and hugged her. I’m always so grateful that people work their asses off at their jobs and use the money they earned to buy our goods. She was super sweet and asked to get a picture, which almost made me cry.

I just want you guys to know how grateful I am. Thank you for buying our goods and thank you for being so damn nice.

Turns out she has a blog too! She wrote about her day at Country Living. Stay at Work Housewife! Go read it! Tell her AmyD sent you.